Fair use is a doctrine in United States copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, such as use for scholarship or review. It provides for the legal, non-licensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author's work.
Technology has been evolving for thousands of years now, and it will never stop. We will continue to come up with break through, and new ways to do things better. With the creation of youtube.com, and websites like it people were able to make their own videos and post things that may be copyrighted by other companies on these websites. They can even post videos they made themselves that may also hold copyrighted material on them. The types of copy righted works include Parody and satire, Illustration or example, Personal reportage or diaries, Negative or critical commentary and, Archiving of vulnerable or revealing materials.
Satire and Parody I think are the most popular and my favorite by far. It’s just funny to see everyday day people put their own spin on pop culture, entertainment, and famous people. To get a wide range of what other people think. Parody is among the most common and uncontroversial examples of fair use. It shows people’s opinions turned into humors, and it allows its creators to express what they really think in a comedic way.
Fair use in parody is really homage to what America is really about. When someone who creates a parody video quotes existing text, image, or music to comment upon it, this practice is really nothing more than that particular person criticizing and expressing his views. The law allows people to be creative with copyrighted material, and it has been paying off for them I would say.
The video’s I posted are two of my favorite parodies on YouTube. One is a parody trailer for the Dark Knight created by the Evil Iguana production company. These guys are hilarious their kids are age that I knew when I was in Chicago. The second one is just a parody of Star Wars that uses a lot lines, and major plots from the first 3 films.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sYBqhOEdRQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKWVCv8uWDI
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My view on such websites as youtube.com are that they are a great addition to our society today in a number of ways in allowing people to express themselves and be creative with no limitations. Although some of the material found on them can be harmful at times, for the most part, the videos are funny or informative as Jim said, and can be used for entertainment purposes, education purposes, and so on. I think that they are a great example of fair use, because they are an open way of being allowed to use other material from places without limitations, and without having to source it or anything of that nature. In regards to that, I feel like a lot of society today uses fair use as their main means for learning and creating things, because so much of copyrighting has become blurry and it seems as though everyone is copyrighting everyone else left and right anyway. With the practice of fair use, it is a more productive way of getting your creative works out there, without having to be bogged down with worrying about whether you’re not properly sourcing something or referencing someone, because you are allowed to do so in the first place. With so much material nowadays being copied from the past, copyrighting has almost become outdated, and fair use is almost the new and improved way and representing one’s self in a creative and safe manner. As for the two clips, nice choice Jim!
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting, especially now, to look at the legal implications and regulations for the use of material holding registered copyrights. Since the creation of Youtube, users have been posting vast amounts of illegal content. This presents many issues in regard to legality but also with the regulation of the website itself. I think in coming years, there will be several groundbreaking legal debates which will enforce some sort of regulation for Internet copyright law. Never before has this been presented as such a widespread issue. While it is important to maintain regulation, I think it would also serve as a wise choice for big corporations to embrace the Internet as a forum for user interaction, remixes and commentary, but do it in a way which benefits both parties (consumers and big business). We have already seen what happened with the music industry after they failed to embrace the mp3 revolution. Companies need to find a balance between protecting their property while embracing cultural and technological change.
ReplyDeleteAs I mentioned in my comment for the other blog, I feel that the legal aspects of this theory need to be more clear, and youtube only makes things worse. With thousands upon thousands of videos, it is a something that is nearly impossible to regulate as tightly as copyright and fair trade laws call for. Does this mean that it should be shut down? Does this mean that the users who post the videos should use their better judgement? If it is up to the users what do they base what is acceptable to post vs unacceptable to post on? Personal Morals, or Copyright laws?
ReplyDeleteSuch websites like youtube make it difficult to determine the purpose or the effect of the potential market and such because people all over the world can watch it for purpose of entertainment. The question is, was that the purpose of why the video was made? Also people use so this website for so many different purposes and I would think the most popular are the parody, personal performance, and commentaries. Of those, I've seen the most in personal performance of people who use youtube to upload videos of themselves dancing,singing, or playing an instrument or a combination of these to sell themselves as an entertainer and artist. But the question comes in, is it fair use to use songs that are not their's? I think the personal spin to already known songs can be interesting and brings me to think of the uniqueness of the artist despite their using an already known song. for example :
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I agree that with the ammount of streaming video on the internet, the possibilities of copyright infringement are there. How many sites host links to streaming videos of full movies? You can watch almost any movie online for free if you are smart enough to find it. This is why I believe that parodies 'sampling' video clips should not be much of a worry to those out to bust people for copyright issues. I don't think that it's right for there to be full streaming movies illegally posted online, yet they still try to track down those who use copyrighted works to create a new, work of their own.
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